1001 reasons begging SYs to announce the Last Judgment and Resurrection!

March 19, 2004

Mass rape atrocity in west Sudan

Aid agencies cannot get help to thousands of displaced people

More than 100 women have been raped in a single attack carried out by Arab militias in Darfur in western Sudan.

Speaking to the BBC, the United Nations co-ordinator for Sudan, Mukesh Kapila, said the conflict had created the worst humanitarian situation in the world.

He said more than one million people were affected by "ethnic cleansing".

He said the fighting was characterised by a scorched-earth policy and was comparable in character, if not in scale, to the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

"It is more than just a conflict. It is an organised attempt to do away with a group of people," he said.

Arab militias, backed by the government, have driven hundreds of thousands from their homes, in retaliation for a rebellion launched a year ago by two armed groups.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3549325.stm

Hundreds of militants 'cornered'

The fighting around Wana is described as fierce

Pakistani forces say they have surrounded up to 400 heavily-armed militants near the Afghan border and are closing in on them.

A military spokesman said at least two of the fighters had died attempting to break the cordon on Friday.

There is speculation that a senior al-Qaeda leader, possibly Osama Bin Laden's deputy Ayman al-Zawahri, is among those cornered.

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Alarm at Liberian ritual killings

women accuse the authorities of failing to act on the killings

Hundreds of Liberian women have taken to the streets of the capital, Monrovia, protesting against a recent wave of ritual killings at the capital.

Bodies of children have been found with some of their organs missing, taken for what are viewed as magical properties.

The women, dressed in white, stormed the Justice Ministry demanding action against the killers.

Politicians and the wealthy are believed to pay for the murders to increase their chances of good fortune. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3551355.stm5,000 rally for breakaway Tiger

The Tamil Tigers accuse Colonel Karuna (right) of treason

About 5,000 people have rallied in the eastern Sri Lankan town of Batticaloa in support of breakaway Tamil Tiger leader Colonel Karuna.

Colonel Karuna split from the main Tigers group this month, complaining the east was not being represented by the rebels' northern-based leaders.

The protesters burned photos of the main commander, Velupillai Prabhakaran.

The split has thrown further doubt on the island's two-year-old ceasefire and fragile peace process.

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